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Without touching on policy, Rich Lowry explains Obama in two simple paragraphs: Put Barack Obama in front of a teleprompter and one thing is certain — he’ll make himself appear the most reasonable person in the room. Rhetorically, he is in the middle of any debate, perpetually surrounded by finger-pointing extremists who can’t get over [...]

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I blogged the other day about the fact that three Marin County towns had opted out of an expensive green energy plan — and that the local liberal newspaper applauded them.  News comes today that yet another town has now decided that the pocketbook trumps Algore induced environmental panic: [Larkspur] City Manager Jean Bonander said [...]

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Steven Crowder’s Nancy Pelosi impression (love the lipstick, dude) is hysterical:

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Don Quixote and I had a very interesting conversation yesterday about the libertarian way to change societal evils. I don’t recall how the conversation wandered over to that topic, but it seems to me it started with a chance reference to a very well known incident in California in the late 1970s. Back then, a [...]

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Did you know that the Library of Congress has a YouTube presence?  Wander over there and check out wonderful moments in time, such as a video clip that is at least 100 years old, showing Annie Oakley shooting: And here, with this recreation of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, is as graphic a [...]

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Every few years, I find it useful to drag out into daylight what my cousin, a Christian prison chaplain, said about Islam and prisoners: It is not a contradiction to be a Muslim and a murderer, even a mass murderer. That is one reason why criminals “convert” to Islam in prison. They don’t convert at [...]

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Britain joyfully welcomes every two-bit Pakistani Islamic radical into its country, but it took an intense, years long legal battle to force the British government to allow the Gurkhas — men who wore the British uniform — to settle in Britain.  First, major kudos to British actress Joanna Lumley (best known to Americans for her [...]

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This week’s Council submissions, all of which look finger lickin’ good, are: Council Submissions Joshuapundit – Land For Peace, American Style Bookworm Room – Has Obama already written the history books? The Provocateur – Honeymoon’s Over: Now Obama Faces Reality Right Truth – In the name of God Rhymes With Right – How Much Medical [...]

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The winners from last week’s Watchers vote are: Council Submissions First place with 1 2/3 points! – Joshua Pundit – The Two State Solution Fallacy Second place with 1 1/3 points – The Colossus of Rhodey – Star Trek as Socialist Utopia Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Right Truth – Barack Stewie [...]

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I’m pretty sure it was Yasser Arafat who asserted that Jews had no connection to Israel in ancient times.  How inconvenient for him that the earth keeps revealing reminders of precisely that connection: Archaeologists digging on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives have discovered a nearly 3,000-year-old jar handle bearing ancient Hebrew script, a find significantly older [...]

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Must gloat:  I had lunch today with both Don Quixote and Charles Martel.  Aside from scintillating conversation, I think I was able to bully both of them into thinking about guest posts for the blog.  So they wouldn’t feel too pressured, I said the deadline was for a year from now — but I was [...]

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Clearly, swine flu is spreading, with 10,243 cases reported worldwide.  There have also been 80 deaths.  Now, I’m no math maven, but my simple math tells me this is a .0078 mortality rate.  My question:  Is a .0078 mortality rate supposed to worry me?  ‘Cause if it is, I’d better get worried quick.  Right now, [...]

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I’m a Darwinist, so this is not a question about creationism or intelligent design or the virtues of Darwinism or anything else.  I’m simply confused about why everyone is so certain that Ida’s the missing link. This lovely site simply says “She lived around the time that primates split into two major groups.”  Given that [...]

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As one of the weapons in its arsenal against Carrie Prejean, the attack media has dug up the fact that both her parents, during their obviously rancorous divorce, hurled charges at the other regarding homosexuality, and now another paper alleges that Prejean’s mother walked away from a lesbian affair.  No magazine has yet claimed that [...]

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My Dad, former Communist, eventual Reagan voter, had a particular pet peeve:  the way in which the welfare system handed out money to women who got pregnant while on welfare.  Since the women got more money for each child, even though it was questionable whether the child’s costs justified that money, he believed that there [...]

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This is only a ten minute snippet.  I’ve heard the whole thing is equally good. I’m not surprised.  I caught a few minutes of Steele on the O’Hannity radio, and he was on fire there too.  Could it be that Steele has finally found his footing?  I hope so.  If he can continue in this [...]

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I don’t know why I’m sharing this one with you, but it’s so horrible it’s almost newsworthy.

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We’ve all heard about teenagers who, after posting the details of the parties on a social networking site, found that their parties had turn into riots because of crashers who troll networking sites.  It turns out that, at least if you’re an Israeli, party crashers may be the least of your worries: Israel’s internal intelligence [...]

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Gathering my thoughts and doing paying work, so blogging will be light to non-existent right now.  As for you my friends, consider the comment section yours.

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Argghhh! is running a caption contest for a photo showing Joe Biden speaking to a group enrolled in the Navy SEALS program.  When you see the picture, you’ll understand why so many of the proposed captions involve the size of a gun or some other, more personal weapon.  I’m no good at manufacturing quips, so [...]

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I know some of you are regular readers at Blackfive, but for those of you who are not, I urge you to visit it today, and read about the Warrior Legacy Foundation:  Here’s a little more about it, but I urge you to go directly to Blackfive to sign up and learn what else you [...]

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It occurred to me that, two times in as many days, I’ve alluded to the first couple’s Messiah complex.  Yesterday, I noted that Michelle and Barack are pretty sure that John 3:16 applies to their willingness to “give” Obama to the American people and, just a few hours ago I did a post in which [...]

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During the 1970s, in the era of the Jewish refusniks, this joke emerged from the Soviet Union: Papa was able to get his family out of the Soviet Union, but he ended up staying behind, hoping for an opportunity to follow them.  Until then, he promised he’d write.  The code he used to keep the [...]

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I haven’t seen the context in which Obama made the reported statement and, really, I don’t want to, because the AP report — which is a mere one sentence in length — seems to encapsulate everything we know about the man.  Here is the entire AP report: WASHINGTON (AP) – Obama to Israeli leader: capitalize [...]

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